From the very beginning, the Republican Party has been fighting to end programs designed to provide some measure of security and dignity to the most vulnerable of our population. In the 1930's it was The New Deal, through the 1960's when the battle became Medicare and Civil Rights, Republicans have viewed these programs as entitlements for the "lazy" of our country. Unemployment insurance, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid have always been characterized by the Right as "give aways" to the undeserving.
The tactics from the time of Ronald Reagen have consistently been one of simple bankruptcy. Just end the funding and these "socialist programs" will disappear. Ironically, one of the death knells was sounded by Republican George W. Bush when he signed the Medicare Part D program which provides pharmaceutical coverage to Medicare recipients. The Part D portion of Medicare caused the cost of Medicare to skyrocket as a portion of our country's budget, thereby making it a large target for deficit reduction reactionaries.
The perception today is that Medicare is simply unaffordable. Reforms are necessary but elimination is, and has always been, the goal of the Republican Party. They are on their way to dismantling union organizing, child labor laws, unemployment protection, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, voting rights, and any low income subsidy alive today.
We need to lower the level of our spending, and we don't need more taxes on the majority of our citizens, but we do need more reasonable minded officials to determine how this is to be accomplished.
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The tactics from the time of Ronald Reagen have consistently been one of simple bankruptcy. Just end the funding and these "socialist programs" will disappear. Ironically, one of the death knells was sounded by Republican George W. Bush when he signed the Medicare Part D program which provides pharmaceutical coverage to Medicare recipients. The Part D portion of Medicare caused the cost of Medicare to skyrocket as a portion of our country's budget, thereby making it a large target for deficit reduction reactionaries.
The perception today is that Medicare is simply unaffordable. Reforms are necessary but elimination is, and has always been, the goal of the Republican Party. They are on their way to dismantling union organizing, child labor laws, unemployment protection, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, voting rights, and any low income subsidy alive today.
We need to lower the level of our spending, and we don't need more taxes on the majority of our citizens, but we do need more reasonable minded officials to determine how this is to be accomplished.
Let's here your rebuttal.
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